Identified insider Tom Henderson “strongly” believes that GTA 6 can be formally introduced by Rockstar Video games and Take-Two Interactive in 2023. He stays “agency” that Grand Theft Auto 6 will launch in 2024 or 2025; nevertheless, his guess is on 2025 provided that each GTA 5 and Crimson Lifeless Redemption 2 have been launched two years after they have been introduced. This could imply he believes that Microsoft’s prediction of a 2024 GTA 6 launch date is a bit optimistic.
A GTA 6 launch date of 2025 makes extra sense, Henderson suggests
As a part of Henderson’s gaming predictions for 2023, he stands by his earlier report again in 2021 that Grand Theft Auto 6 would launch in 2024 or 2025 “regardless of being flamed from the GTA group” for it:
…I stated that GTA 6 will launch in both 2024 – 2025, which is a agency date I strongly nonetheless consider is going on. A 2023 announcement would line up with these years completely, particularly in case you’re aware of how Rockstar Video games and Take-Two have typically dealt with their sport bulletins and releases previously.
He continues: “Is a launch announcement for 2024 attainable? Certain. However Rockstar’s monitor file means that the sport can be pushed again one other yr anyway.”
By comparability, Microsoft’s prediction that “the extremely anticipated GTA 6 is anticipated to be launched in 2024” was made in its arguments to the UK’s Competitors and Markets Authority in favor of the Activision Blizzard deal.
In early November, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick acknowledged in an earnings name with traders that GTA 6 was not impacted by the Rockstar Video games hack. He additionally acknowledged that he would favor delays over flops, which is partially why the sport’s launch date wasn’t revealed in 2022.
